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Since Julia was the Queen of cooking; this is a cake recipe from Victorian times:

QUEEN CAKE
Mix one pound of dried flour, the same of sifted sugar and of washed currants; wash ONE POND OF BUTTER in rose water, beat it well, then mix with it eight eggs, yolks and whites beaten separately, and put in the dry ingredients by degrees; beat the whole an hour; butter little tins, teacups, or saucers, filling them only half full; sift a little fine sugar over just as you put them into the oven.